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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1878

A BIG GUN.

ARTILLERY experiments were lately resumed at Shoeburyness, near London, with the eighty-ton cannon. It was loaded with a charge of 425 pounds; the projectile, a Palliser ball, weighed 1,700 pounds, and quitted the mouth of the gun at the rate of 1,600 feet in a second. The target was at a distance of 120 yards, and was composed of a sheet of iron two feet thick, traversed by oaken beams of fifteen inches. It cost about $30,000. The projectile buried itself seventeen inches in the iron, which was not thought satisfactory, but, owing to the heavy expense of each shot, a second trial was not made.—Ex.